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Thanks to Sheriff Henry Trochesset and his department for their recent assistance. My brother, living in San Leon, recently passed away. Immediately after being notified, I left my home in the Austin area for San Leon.

America elected a president to "drain the swamp" in Washington by eliminating progressive (AKA Democrat) bureaucracies. To start, he is appointing the most conservative cabinet since the 1920s. President Trump’s next job will be firing all 4,750 appointed bureaucrats and replacing them with conservatives.

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Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that “The world will be saved by beauty,” which leads us to ask two rhetorical questions: first, does this mean that the world is lost and, second, is ugliness to blame for its condition? Rhetorical questions require no answer, but what we can see for ourselves is that in their multiple forms — artistic, personal and moral — beauty and ugliness contend for cultural supremacy. Today the general consensus among humanistic thinkers is that a “cult of ugliness” prevails.

Our reporting on the the pending flood insurance rate changes continues to generate a lot of interest with readers. We're getting a lot of questions about the new rates and all the factors that figure into calculating new premiums.

In a public service to you, I'm asking everyone who has a question about the new rates to email me at wes.swift@galvnews.com or leave a question in the comments below. I'll compile the questions and put together a Frequently Asked Questions story that will, hopefully, answer all of your questions.

Also, if you've received a renewal notice for your flood insurance, I'd like to hear what your new rates are. The new rates are going into effect Oct. 1, so a lot of people should be getting renewal notices soon, if they haven't already. I'm interested to get away from the realm of the theoretical and see just how high the new rates actually are. Please send any stories to wes.swift@galvnews.com as well.